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By: Jeff Goldberg

ISBN: 9780553346312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1989
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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A true scientific page-turner that traces a remarkable scientific breakthrough (the isolation of endorphins in the brain) as dedicated scientists race--not only with their fellow scientists--but against time and the profit hungry giant pharmaceutical companies.


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By: John W. Humphrey

ISBN: 9780313327636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As he touches on the common elements of ancient technologyenergy, machines, mining, metallurgy, ceramics, agriculture, engineering, transportation, and communicationHumphrey asks questions central to understanding the impact of ancient tools on the modern world: What prompts change


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By: Cody Cassidy

ISBN: 9781760290962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A fun, gruesomely fascinating and scientifically accurate guide to some of the most bizarre ways to die.


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By: Fabrizio Baldassarri

ISBN: 9781350325142
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Fabrizio Baldassarri

ISBN: 9781350325180
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Carol Gould

ISBN: 9780465028382
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
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"Engrossing... The prospect of using the structures an animal builds to extrapolate its cognitive capability is irresistible. Fortunately for readers, the levelheaded Goulds prove wonderful guides through these shadowy corridors, at once skeptical and reverent."--Boston Globe


(Paperback, Revised edition)

By: A. J. Cain

ISBN: 9780691600789
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Long before Charles Darwin undertook his first voyage, animal taxonomists had begun the scientific classification of animals, plants, and minerals. In the mid-1950s, taxonomist A. J. Cain summarized the state of knowledge about the structure of the living world in his major book Animal Species and Their Evolution. His work remains remarkably curren


(Hardback, Revised edition)

By: A. J. Cain

ISBN: 9780691630601
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Gyan Prakash

ISBN: 9780691004532
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Another Reason is a study of the relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash explores the complexities, contradictions, and importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason.


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By: Deborah M. Gordon

ISBN: 9780691138794
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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An ant colony operates without a central control or hierarchy, and no ant directs another. Focusing on the moment-to-moment behavior of ant colonies, this book investigates the role of interaction networks in regulating colony behavior and relations among ant colonies. It shows how ant behavior arises from local interactions of individuals.


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By: Frederic Lawrence Holmes

ISBN: 9780691634791
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Eric Johnson

ISBN: 9780262546614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: Errol E. Harris

ISBN: 9780275968304
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This text seeks to demonstrate the continuing influence of Newtonian scientific paradigms in 20th-century philosophic, ethical, economic and social habits of thought.


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By: William F. Allman

ISBN: 9780553349467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1990
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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In the vein of The Soul of a New Machine, a dramatic chronicle of a new revolution in brain-mind science comes this accessible book on the scientists who are creating startling new theories of how the mind works as the forge a new kind of artificial intelligence called neural networks--or, the first thinking machines


(Hardback)

By: Cecil Hastings

ISBN: 9780691653105
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Cecil Hastings

ISBN: 9780691626949
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Numerical analysts and computer operators in all fields will welcome this publication in book form of Cecil Hastings' well-known approximations for digital computers, formerly issued in loose sheets and available only to a limited number of specialists. In a new method that combines judgment and intuition with mathematics, Mr. Hasting has evolved a


(Paperback, Second Edition)

By: Paul G. Falkowski

ISBN: 9780691115511
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A comprehensive guide to understanding the evolution and ecology of photosynthesis in aquatic environments. This second edition describes how one of the most fundamental metabolic processes evolved and transformed the surface chemistry of the Earth. It focuses on biochemical and biophysical advances and the molecular biological techniques.


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By: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis

ISBN: 9780691636290
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis

ISBN: 9780691607771
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This classic study by the eminent Dutch historian of science E. J. Dijksterhuis (1892-1965) presents the work of the Greek mathematician and mechanical engineer to the modern reader. With meticulous scholarship, Dijksterhuis surveys the whole range of evidence on Archimedes' life and the 2000-year history of the manuscripts and editions of the text


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By: Sehoya H. Cotner

ISBN: 9780313359477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This timely encyclopedia presents an arsenal of evidence for evolution that goes beyond the typical textbook examples.

Arguing for Evolution: An Encyclopedia for Understanding Science provides readers with a single source for the scientific evidence supporting evolution.


(Hardback)

By: Colin Guthrie King

ISBN: 9781350372184
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Gisbert Wstholz

ISBN: 9780691193779
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Gisbert Wstholz

ISBN: 9780691193786
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Nicholas M. Katz

ISBN: 9780691083520
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 1985
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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